Word: haircutting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bellwether's Topknot. For the short, chopped, overly sleek follower-or victim-of the short-haircut style, the new style was a shock. Even if she moved into a hothouse and buried herself in Vigoro, she couldn't grow a chignon of her own in time to be in style. By no coincidence, the hair stylists were ready with just what the lady roundheads needed: the artificial chignon...
...designer who claims to have launched the chignon fad, one Madame Marguerite Buck of Fashion Futures, had also helped promote the short haircut. "American women carry things to extremes," said she. "We didn't expect them to crop all their hair off-they look like Chihuahuas." The chignon, she thought, was the ideal answer...
Outside of Pyongyang's City Hall last week a young man with a jitterbug haircut tried to start a conversation with me. I asked my interpreter what the jitterbug wanted. Said the interpreter: "He says he wants rice, and that he will do anything you want him to do if you will give him some." I told the interpreter to tell the young man that I didn't have any rice, but that if he waited there, perhaps someone might come along who could give him some. If he waited there long enough, someone might even come along...
...Greenwich, Conn. (pop. 38,000), barbers posted a new price scale: shave and a haircut, two bucks. And rising costs wiped out another price landmark. In Philadelphia, the Coca-Cola Bottling Co. upped its prices by 15? a case, thus forcing retailers to charge 6? for a bottle of Coke...
...Lindsay, Okla. (pop. 3,018), farmers' trucks lumbered into the streets last week with hundreds of bales of an odd-looking crop: a thin cornstalk that seemed in need of a haircut. It was broomcorn, the dry, tasteless straw from which 45 million brooms a year are made. As rapidly as the trucks drew up to the curb, buyers pulled test brushes out of the bales and began bidding. They made a clean sweep of the stocks, and sent the price up to an alltime average high of $400 a ton v. $255 last year...